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Cricetomys Waterhouse, 1840

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1840 p.2

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Nesomyidae
genus
Cricetomys

Name

Homonyms
Cricetomys Waterhouse, 1840
Common names
African Giant Pouched Rats in English
African Giant Pouched Rats in English
African Giant Pouched Rats in English
Cricétomes in French
Giant Pouched Rats in English
Kjempehamsterrotter in Norwegian Bokmål
afrikanhamstraajarotat in Finnish
giant pouched rat in English
wielkoszczur in Polish
Хомяковидные крысы in Russian
アフリカオニネズミ属 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Superfamily Muroidea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2. 894-1531.
  2. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  3. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  4. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 8
  5. Rosevear, D. R., 1969: null. The Rodents of West Africa. 604.
  6. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
  7. SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
  8. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
  9. Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
  10. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
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